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[–]DistantGlimmer 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think this gets to the central contradiction in gender identity: There would be 4 options. -

1 "Woman" is defined by biology but then transwomen are not women.

2 There are no differences in gendered behavior between women and men. Sex is a category but only physical and not meaningful in social interaction. Gender is very fluid and not really based on sex. I don't think anyone on either side believes this as if it were the case transwomen should be as safe in men's spaces as women's spaces.

3 Gender is a messy ill-defined blob of social stereotypes that transwomen can try to emulate to "become women". This is the only definition that is logical at all so it is what TRAs are left with. It is anti-feminist and reinforces gender roles You can make it a little less sexist by adding in physical secondary sex characteristics which transwomen can change but it still is misogynistic at the core.

4 "Anyone who says they are a woman is a woman". I don't think this should even be a proper definition as it makes the term woman completely meaningless.